The film will premiere in Japan on 30 January 2026.
A new trailer just came out for the upcoming anime movie “Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway: The Sorcery of Nymph Circe”. Other than previewing scenes from the film, it also features parts of the theme song ‘Snooze’ performed by five-time Grammy award winning artist SZA. The movie will be released in Japanese theaters on 30 January 2026.
Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway: The Sorcery of Nymph Circe anime movie details
The famous song ‘Snooze’ was released in 2022 as part of SZA’s second studio album, “SOS”.
Other than the main trailer, the official Gundam YouTube channel also released a short snippet from the movie featuring the insert song ‘ENDROLL’ by Yoohei Kawakami [Alexandros] × SennaRin.
The cast members of the film so far include:
- Kensho Ono as Hathaway Noa
- Reina Ueda as Gigi Andalucia
- Junichi Suwabe as Kenneth Sleg
- Soma Saito as vLane Aim
- Hiroshi Shirokuma as Brinks Wedge
- Anna Nagase as Julia Suga
- Mahana Yamasaki as Hara Morley
- Kazuki Kyan as Rod Hein
- Hinata Sato as Betchy
- Taiki Yamashita as Lowest Heinrich
- Shinya Takahashi as Chachai Coleman
- Noriaki Kanze as Josef Sedi
- Shuichi Uchida as Ridrick
- Hayato Inomata as Bilantes Suecken
- Taihi Kimura as Drab Lid
Shukou Murase directs the Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway: The Sorcery of Nymph Circe film at SUNRISE. Yasuyuki Muto writes the scripts while Pablo Uchida, Naoyuki Onda, and Shigeki Kuhara design the characters for the movie. Haruhiko Mikimoto is the original character designer. Other staff members include:
- Original story: Yoshiyuki Tomino / Hajime Yatate
- Mechanical Design: Hajime Katoki, Kimitoshi Yamane, Seiichi Nakatani, Nobuhiko Genma
- Original Mechanical Design: Yasuhiro Moriki, Kazumi Fujita
- Art Setting: Tomoaki Okada
- Art Director: Kinichi Ohkubo
- Colour Setting: Takako Suzuki, Yuichi Kuboki
- Display Design: Yoshinori Sayama
- CG Director: Ryukow Masuo
- Director of Photography: Yoshihisa Oyama
- VFX Director: Manabu Kadono
- Editing: Daisuke Imai
- Sound Supervisor: Koji Kasamatsu
- Recording Supervisor: Eriko Kimura
- Music Composer: Hiroyuki Sawano
- Planning & Production: SNRISE
- Produced by Bandai Namco Filmworks Inc.
- Distribution by Bandai Namco Filmworks Inc. and Shochiku Co., Ltd.
The Gundam Hathaway movie trilogy is based on Yoshiyuki Tomino’s 1989 Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Flash. The first film, titled Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway was released in Japan on 11 June, 2021. The Sorcery of Nymph Circe’s story is described as (machine translation):
The year is U.C. 0105, 12 years after Char's Rebellion.
The MAFTY have begun a resistance against the oppressive Earth Federation Government by assassinating its high-ranking government officials. Their leader is none other than Hathaway Noa, the son of Bright, who fought alongside Amuro Ray in the One Year War.
Gigi Andalusia, a girl who has some mysterious powers, reminds Hathaway of his past trauma. Despite being affected by her words, Noa remains stoic in his goal to carry out an air raid on the Adelaide conference. This is to fulfill MAFTY’s goal, and to also lay his past to rest.
Meanwhile, Kenneth Sleg from the Federation Forces prepares a defense for the Adelaide Conference and also devises a plan to eliminate the MAFTY. However, he is suddenly approached by Handley Yoxon of the Criminal Police Organization who comes to him with a top secret proposal.
While Hathaway and Kenneth each work toward their own goals, Gigi also travels to Hong Kong to fulfill her role.